As I stood laughing with the crowd at the Dillon Pep Rally last Thursday night, I became increasingly aware of a subject that has long been burdening my conscience. The pep rally was a chance for the good ol' boys of Dillon Hall to poke a little fun at just about everybody from radio D.J. Taylor Richards to the president of Purdue University. But one group that was attacked in almost militaristic fashion were the female students of our own Notre Dame.

Now I can take a joke, and I'm sure that all was meant in fun at the pep rally, but the zings hurled by the actors on stage only echo a much larger and seemingly growing sentiment against Notre Dame girls. It is whispered from upperclassmen to freshmen in the first few weeks of school. It is laughed about in the dining hall, the classrooms and on the quad. "Notre Dame girls aren't that good looking."

But every day I spend waiting for friends at the dining hall, watching the multitudes of female Notre Dame students pass me, I think to myself, "You've gotta be kidding me."

Fact is, girls at Notre Dame are gorgeous. Pretty girls flock by me on my way to class. Beautiful ladies abound at the tables in LaFortune and Coleman-Morse. They are the ones who are wearing pajama bottoms and glasses, with their hair up and their nose buried in "Plato's Republic" or "General Chemistry." True, there is a definite lack of teenie-bopping, bleached-blonde, fake-tanned, cleavage-touting, flesh parades on campus. Thank God. Find me a girl who is interested in stimulating a more important organ — my brain. Now that's arousing.

Personally, having a girlfriend at Saint Mary's (we were together before either of us went to college) has freed me to look at women much more objectively. I'm not looking for a date, or even a hook-up, but I would say this to the single men of this University: Look at the fine women around you. The ones who are self-respecting. The ones who are intelligent. The ones you know will someday have great careers, make amazing contributions to all corners of academia and maybe someday make the wonderful families of tomorrow. That is more than beautiful. That's drop-dead gorgeous.

Brian Grundy

sophomore

Keough Hall

Sept. 7

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